Peter Brown NEAC

You may have seen him sitting in front of his easel in all weathers painting the city view in front of him, perhaps at the same time chatting to passers-by who stop to admire his work. Peter Brown is a plein air arrest of the first rank. The complexities of town scenes, the movement of people, light bouncing off buildings, the general hurly-burly of life - all excite and inspire him. He is a master of chiaroscuro, light at the edge of dark places, and sometimes one wonders if a dry brush of sunlight, or even artificial light, is dragged across the surface of the painting leaving pools and sparks of light in just the right places. Light, colour and movement are the three elements that make a painting vibrate with life; in Peter Brown’s case, they literally leap from the canvas screaming WOW! Peter paints with astonishing speed so one has to ask the question, how on earth does he do it, how does he produce so many paintings of great complexity and accuracy in so short a time. He will probably say he doesn’t know, it just happens.

Peter was born in Reading and studied art at Bath College of Higher Education and Manchester Polytechnic and at Greenwich. He is the winner of many awards and a member of most national art societies. There have been numerous sell-out one-man exhibitions.